 A language is defined as stress-timed when the intervals between stressed syllables, at a given rate of speaking, are perceived as approximately equal in length. The utterance, later I'll see you in the garden, has three stressed syllables. Irrespective of the number of syllables between them, the intervals between the stressed syllables roughly take the same amount of time. The language is stress-timed. This is different from syllable-timed languages such as Spanish. Here it is not the intervals between the stressed syllables but the syllables themselves that roughly take the same amount of time.